Thierry Henry has no doubt that Diogo Jota's goalscoring return with Liverpool will bring out the best in Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah.
Jota marked his return to Wolves by reigniting Liverpool's fading Champions League hopes, striking in first-half stoppage time to claim a hard-earned 1-0 win at Molineux on Monday.
The Portuguese star, who moved to Anfield in a deal worth £45million last summer, scored his first goal since November and first since recovering from a knee injury.
His return coincides with the poor from of his team-mates, with Salah failing to score in the last five top-flight games while Mane has gone seven games without finding the back of the net.
But Arsenal legend Henry has no doubt that Jota can inspire the struggling pair - and touched on a similar scenario when he played alongside Dennis Bergkamp and Nwankwo Kanu.
When asked whether Jota could play Mane and Salah back into form, he told Sky Sports' Monday Night Football: "Yes.
"You know what makes a difference is when you know as a player, whether your Mane or your Salah, is if you know that there is someone behind that can come on.
"Not someone that you’re like 'Okay, I’m going to play anyway because that guy isn’t as good as me'.
"What that guy [Jota] is about to bring, and what he was bringing at the beginning – and then he got injured he couldn’t carry on and the team stopped progressing.
"What it does in, in my time for example, if I’m not playing well I’m looking at the bench, I’m like 'Dennis is on the bench, Kanu is on the bench. I better do something’.
"In training you’re looking and you’re like 'Oh these guys are as good as you, you need to perform'.
"That’s what this guy is going to bring. You need to have some competition, in training and on the bench."
Victory lifted the champions to sixth in the Premier League table but still five points behind Chelsea in the race for the top four.
